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Identifier: baltimoreitshist03hall (find matches)
Title: Baltimore : its history and its people
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hall, Clayton Coleman, 1847-1916 Lewis Historical Publishing Co
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Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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rests of Baltimore, is of ancient English de-scent. Tradition assigns the following origin to the patronymic: Two brothers named Vernon lived on a stream called Wich one on the right side, the other on the left. The ancestor of the left Wich was calledVernon of Leftwich. The arms of the family are as follows: Arms:Argent, on a fess-engrailed azure, three garlands or. Crest: Five leaves,conjoined at base sort. Motto: Vernon semper floret. In the beautiful county of Cheshire, England, is situated LeftwichHall, about a mile from the town of Norwich, and the township of Left-wich. In the time of Edward the Confessor the manor belonged to Osmer,Saxon lord of Sihroe. After the conquest it was granted to Richard deVernon, Baron of Shipbrook, who accompanied the Conqueror to England;from Richard it descended to Sir Warin de Vernon. At the death of SirWarin the estate passed to Margery, his daughter and co-heiress, who mar-ried Sir Richard de Wilbraham, their daughter Matilda becoming the wife
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HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 715 of Robert de Croxton, a lineal descendant of the Viscounts of the Coten-tin, Normandy. About 1250 Robert de Croxton took the name of Leftvvichfrom his wifes estate, and in this name he and his lineal descendants heldit for over four centuries, when another Robert de Leftwich, dying, leftan only daughter, Elizabeth, who married William Oldfield, Esquire. Theirdescendants were the Leftwich Oldfields, the last of wdiom died in 1736.Thus the estate descended uninterruptedly from the Concjuest for six hun-dred and seventy years. Ralph Leftwich and his wife, Eleanor Mainwaring, were the parentsof three sons. Robert, Thomas and William. Robert married and hadtwo daughters, Elizabeth and Eleanor; Thomas married, in 1556, Catha-rine, daughter of Arthur Holford, and had Ralph, of whom nothing fur-ther is heard. The records of New Kent county, Virginia, show that onAugust 10, 1658, Ralph Leftwich received a grant of land on the Pianka-tank River, said land being due unto
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